Adherents.com: Religious Groups in Literature

34,420 citations from literature (mostly science fiction and fantasy) referring to real churches, religious groups, tribes, etc. [This database is for literary research only. It is not intended as a source of information about religion.]

"'He was,' he said, 'at the time this photo was taken, having a luau in Hawaii. Eating young taro leaves with chicken and octopus. Enjoying himself. See the greed for the food, the lust creating an unnatural expression. He was relaxing on a Sunday afternoon before a speech before the faculty of some university; I forget which. Those happy days in the sixties.' "

"Jeremy and Gail celebrate their honeymoon on a canoe-and-backpacking trip... not have enough money for their first choice, Maui. "

Hawaii

Hawaii

1994

Simmons, Dan. Fires of Eden. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1994)

[Book jacket.] "Real estate mogul Byron Trumbo is the owner of the Mauna Pele, a deluxe Hawaiian resort that until recently was the playground of the rich and famous. Yet instead of making money hand over fist, Trumbo has a bit of a problem: guests keep disappearing. Hoping to sell the resort to Japanese investors, he invites them to Mauna Pele to finalize the deal--but strange and fantastic events complicate the weekend. Giant beasts capable of human speech are spotted, visitors turn up dead and dismembered, and volcanic eruptions fill the sky with smoke and flame as fast-moving lava flows dangerously close the resort. " [Extensive Hawaii refs. throughout novel, not in DB.]

Hawaii

Hawaii

1995

Aldiss, Brian. "Becoming the Full Butterfly " in Supertoys Last All Summer Long. New York: St. Martin's Griffin (2001; c. 1995); pg. 206.

"Thirty years on and it was plain to see the really significant thing was that Japan had achieved the age-old dream. China and Japan became one. And my goodness, didn't the world feel it! " [Other refs., not in DB.]

"Dallas arrived in Hawaii two days early, the Singapore business having been less complicated than Kamachi had predicted... One day for beaches and bars, the next for morning skin diving, alone, and an aimless dawdle through the forest preserve on Kauai.

As arranged, he met Maria outside Spaceport Maui at noon the next day. " [More.]

"I thought about my childhood in the Free State of Hawaii, on the island of Kauai... " [Some other refs. in novel to Hawaii, the home of the main character. The character is Chinese (pg. 225). See pg. 250.]

"The locale is Oceana ('Shaana'), an Earth-type planet 50 light-years, and 500 years of voyage time, from the solar system, colonized 2,000 years earlier in the first wave of interstellar exploration. There is very little land; continents still lie 100 million years in the future, and there is still much tectonic activity. The largest island is about the size of Hawaii, and very similar to Hawaii in climate and culture. "

Hawaii

Hawaii

1000004000

Anderson, Poul. Genesis. New York: Tor (2000); pg. 50.

"'...North Africa back to desert, lava burying the Gardens of Hawai'i--all the loss of recreation...' "

"While they ate, a slightly dark-skinned girl, of possibly Hawaiian descent, emerged from the rear and did an indifferent hula. Gust looked on with some pleasure, since she wore only a low-slung grass skirt with many tufts missing and was enough overweight to produce a great deal of jiggling that added a certain something to the dance. "

"Waikiki, Hawaii. February 2, 1887. The first thing Princess Kaiulani saw, as her eyes adjusted to the dim light in her mother's sickroom, was the old holy man. The kahuna... Her mother had said something once, a few months ago, about old Hawaii vanishing. Eaten by the sharks, she had said. Who were the sharks? Kaiulani wondered... " [This entire book is about Hawaii, ancient Hawaiian traditional religions, and the Homeland Movement to gain Hawaiian independence. Most of it takes place in the near future: the years 2034 and 2007.]

Pg. 106: "'Probably. Everything the Hawaiians did or thought revolved around manu or kapu.'

'Taboos?' said Eleanor.

...'Kapus were not just rules on what could or could not be done. For thousands of years, the Hawaiians were obsessed with manu--with this spiritual power that flowed from the earth and the gods and each other--and kapu helped keep the power where it belonged . . . helped to keep it from being stolen.' "; Pg. 119: goddess Pele [Many more refs., not in DB.]

"He discussed the hierarchy of Hawaiian animism: the aumakua, or important family gods; the kapua, or children of the gods, who dwelt among the mortals much as had Hercules and the other Greek demigods; the akua kapu, who, like the ghosts of mainland Native Americans, merely frightened people and presaged bad luck; and the akua li'l, literally 'little spirits,' who rounded out the almost endless Hawaiian pantheon as animist personifications of trees, waterfalls, forms of weather, and all the other aspects of nature. " [More.]

Hawaiian traditional religion

world

2038

Brin, David. Earth. New York: Bantam (1990); pg. 184.

"Gaia worship took many forms, and this Pele-venerating version seemed harmless enough. "

[Referring to orbital satellites named after historical religious/philosophical figures.] "Almost directly overhad was the dazzling beacon of Ashoka, poised forever above Hindustan, and only a few hundred kilometers from the Tower complex. Halfway down in the east was Confucius, much lower still Kamehameha, while high up from the west shone Kinte and Imhotep. "

"Looking to us, and desiring to be a part of my Father's Kingdom, can offer to those . . . that chance to connect with the Level Above Human, and begin that transitino. Your separation from the world and reliance upon the Kingdom of Heaven through its Representatives can open to you the opportunity to become a new creature, one of the Next Evolutionary Level . . .-- 'Do,' Heaven's Gate, 1997 "

"He had seen in photos the same kind of peculiar glint in the eyes of others who had aspired to godhood, such as David Koresh of the doomed Branch Davidians, and Marshall Applewhite, known as 'Do' to those who had followed him through Heaven's Gate. "

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